#georges devy

[earlypalaeoart]

"Tous ces etres qui ont precede l'homme et qui sortent aujourd'hui de leurs tombeaux ne semblent-ils pas des monstres? Pourtant ils sont rattaches a nous par des liens originels" ["Do not all these beings who preceded man and who are now emerging from their tombs seem like monsters? Yet they are connected to us by primal ties"] by Georges Devy from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f113.item

[books0977]

The Secret Letter (1882). Georges Devy (French, died 1902). Oil on canvas.

The gentleman reads a book. By his gestures and position, he appears to read out loud to the lady. The lady likely is not paying attention as she is in the act of passing the secret letter to the second man.

[earlypalaeoart]

"Au lieu de Paris, c'était la mer… des ptérodactyles aux larges ailes sautaient dans le ciel." ["Instead of Paris, it was the sea... pterodactyls with broad wings were jumping in the sky."] by Georges Devy from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f24.item

[earlypalaeoart]

"La trompette du jugement de la science a sonné. Ils sont ressuscités, et le naturaliste les classe." ["The trumpet of scientific judgment has sounded. They have been resurrected, and the naturalist classifies them."] by Georges Devy from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f29.item

[fleurdulys]

A Geisha Court - Georges Devy

19th century